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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Puddings and More Puddings, Really
- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
Category Archives: Music
Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt, Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, Portland, Oregon – Sept. 6, 1999
Something old, new, borrowed and blue were among the ingredients as these two grand dames of American folk-rock launched their first-ever joint tour in front of some 4,000 fans in an outdoor amphitheater. Old: Songs going back more than 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Jimmy Young’s Pipeworks
Patrick O’Donnell wrote this review. There probably is no sound more associated with Celtic music than that of the pipes. They’re heard at almost every Celtic festival, on St. Patrick’s Day, and in movie soundtracks ranging from “Rob Roy” and … Continue reading
Steeleye Span & Maddy Prior’s A Rare Collection 1972-1996
Raven Records is a label set up by Australian rock historian Glenn A. Baker. Although he has been collecting and compiling recordings for over 25 years, it was in the late Eighties that he won the BBC competition “Rock Brain … Continue reading
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Tagged English folk rock
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Richard Thompson’s Mock Tudor
(This review was written by Gary Whitehouse and Dan Herman in September 1999.) Any new release by Richard Thompson is eagerly awaited by his minor legion of extremely loyal fans worldwide. But anticipation was especially high for Mock Tudor. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged British folk rock, English folk rock
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John Doe solo acoustic at Lenora’s Ghost
John Doe seems to be coming to terms with being an aging rock star. Not that, in his mid-forties, the frontman of X — the most important punk band to come out of Los Angeles — is anything like a … Continue reading
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Moebius’s August: New Music for Three Bagpipes
Brendan Foreman wrote this review for Folk Tales. I may be wrong here, but it occurs to me that piping music written for six hands, i.e., three pipers, is not the most common music in the world. In fact, most … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagpipes, Celtic music
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Kelly Joe Phelps’s Shine Eyed Mister Zen
Kelly Joe Phelps is firmly located in folk and country blues, but he is one of those musicians who are impossible to pigeon-hole. It’s tempting to describe him by comparison with his myriad musical influences, but that would miss by … Continue reading
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Various artists’ Holding Up Half the Sky – Voices of Latin Women
Shanachie and producer Daisann McLane set out with a modest goal for this CD: To introduce listeners to the joys of Latin American women singers. They’ve succeeded quite nicely. Holding Up Half the Sky contains nearly an hour of varied … Continue reading
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Tagged world music
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Sandy Bull’s Inventions, E Pluribus Unum, Jukebox School of Music, Vehicles, Steel Tears
Sandy Bull is a legend — if not with the general public, then surely among his fellow musicians. And like most legendary figures, he is both larger than life and has feet of clay. Of his early work in the … Continue reading
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The Handsome Family’s Through the Trees
The roots of country music twist their way deep into some pretty dark territory. The cimmerian side of human nature has long been a major theme in American music, running like a vein of black coal deep under the roots … Continue reading